Double Olympic champion Mo Farah had to settle for bronze in the World Half Marathon Championships in Cardiff. Defending champion Geoffrey Kamworor fell at the start and was almost trampled under a stampede of athletes, but made it to his feet and finished ahead of Bedan Karoki to claim back-to-back wins in the event. The Kenyan pair kept up a near world-record pace throughout the race and were shoulder to shoulder approaching the final mile before Kamworor forged ahead through horizontal rain and gusting winds to finish in 59:10Olympic and world 5,000m and 10,000m champion Farah, who beat Kamworor in the 10,000m world championship race in Beijing last year, finished strongly and overtook Ethiopias Abayneh Ayele in the home straight but was 49 seconds adrift of the winner.I am disappointed, Farah told the BBC. With great support from the home crowd it would have been nice to win.But there were better athletes who won on the day, the guys were strong and I couldnt go with it. 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The Vancouver coach and an announced sellout crowd of 18,910 watched in dismay as the Canucks lost 7-4 to the New York Islanders on Monday night by squandering a 3-0 lead in the third period. The College Football Playoff semifinals this year are in which bowls? The committee releases its rankings when? Whos on the committee?Inhale. Exhale. Repeat.There are coaches everywhere who study the sport for a living and cant answer those questions. The CFP is entering its third season, yet theres still plenty of confusion over how it all works.Heres your CFP 101 for 2016:THE GAMESThe semifinals: Chick-fil-A?Peach Bowl and Fiesta Bowl, both Dec. 31. Kickoffs will be at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m ET on ESPN.College Football Playoff National Championship: Jan. 9 on ESPN in Tampa, Florida (its always on a Monday).THE PEOPLEThe selection committee consists of 12 people: Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt (chair); Wisconsin AD Barry Alvarez; former Southern Miss coach Jeff Bower; former Central Michigan coach Herb Deromedi; former NCAA executive Tom Jernstedt; former Vanderbilt coach Bobby Johnson; Arkansas AD Jeff Long; Oregon AD Rob Mullens; Clemson AD Dan Radakovich; Condoleezza Rice; retired sports reporter Steve Wieberg; and former coach Tyrone Willingham. Former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr had to step down due to health reasons.You can find more detailed bios of the committee here. Two committee members are assigned as monitors for each conference.?Their duties include: ? Six weekly top-25 rankings, beginning Nov. 1 and ending on Dec. 4. ? Selecting the top four teams for the playoff, ranking and assigning them to semifinal sites. ? Selecting the highest-ranked champion from the Group of 5 (MAC, Mountain West, American, Sun Belt, Conference USA) for a New Years Six bowl.Nine of the 12 committee members are affected by the CFPs recusal policy, which prohibits a committee member from voting for a team they or an immediate family member receive compensation from or have a professional relationship with. You can find the full recusal list here.THE PROCESSThe selection committee meets at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine, Texas, every Monday and Tuesday, starting Oct. 31 this year. They each have a computer to vote on, and they debate and rank the teams in groups of six or eight. They each come prepared with their own preliminary top 30 but only rank 25.They are guided by these criteria (not weighted) when choosing their top four teams: ?Championships won ?Strength of schedule ?Head-to-head competition ?Comparative outcomes of common opponents (without incenting margin of victory)THE WEEKLY RANKINGSEach week, starting on Nov. 1, the committee will unveil its top-25 rankings on ESPNs College Football Playoff: Top 25. There will be weekly updates, culminating with the final rankings on Dec.dddddddddddd. 4. And oh yeah, the second ranking just happens to fall on election night.? Tuesday, Nov. 1, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN ? Tuesday, Nov. 8, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN ? Tuesday, Nov. 15, 9 p.m. ET, ESPN ? Tuesday, Nov. 22, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN ? Tuesday, Nov. 29, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN ? Sunday, Dec. 4, 12 p.m. ET, ESPNTHE CFP MATCHUPSThe committee doesnt try to avoid regular-season rematches in the semifinals: Its No. 1 vs. No. 4, and No. 2 vs. No. 3. They will, however, try to avoid rematches in the other New Years Six bowls.The highest-ranked team from the Group of 5 conferences is guaranteed a spot in a New Years Six bowl.Both teams for the Capital One Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl Game Presented by Northwestern Mutual and Allstate Sugar Bowl are contracted outside the playoff arrangement (Big Ten and Pac-12 to the Rose Bowl; SEC and Big 12 to the Sugar Bowl; and ACC to the Orange Bowl against the highest-ranked team available from the SEC, Big Ten and Notre Dame). If a conference champion qualifies for the playoff, the bowl losing that team chooses a replacement from that conference. When those bowls host the semifinals and their contracted conference champs do not qualify, the displaced champion(s) will play in a different New Years bowl. The other New Years Six game is the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic.New Years Six schedule: ? Capital One Orange Bowl, Dec. 30, 8 p.m., ET, ESPN ? Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, Jan. 2, 1 p.m. ET, ESPN ? Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual, Jan. 2, 5 p.m., ESPN ? Allstate Sugar Bowl, Jan. 2, 8 p.m. ET, ESPNTHE HISTORY2014 Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual: Oregon 59, Florida State 20 Allstate Sugar Bowl: Ohio State 42, Alabama 35College Football Playoff National Championship: Ohio State 42, Oregon ?202015 Capital One Orange Bowl: Clemson 37, Oklahoma 17 Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic: Alabama 38, Michigan State 0College Football Playoff National Championship: Alabama 45, Clemson 40THE FUTURE2017-18 Playoff semifinals:?Allstate Sugar Bowl & Rose Bowl Game Presented by Northwestern Mutual College Football Playoff National Championship: Atlanta, Ga.2018-19 Playoff semifinals:?Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic & Capital One Orange Bowl College Football Playoff National Championship:?Santa Clara, Calif.2019-20 Playoff semifinals:? Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl & Fiesta Bowl College Footblal Playoff National Championship: New Orleans, La. ' ' '